Would you? Could you? Consume your placenta?

How about a more palatable way to consume your placenta by having it prepared into capsules!

I have experienced the amazing benefits of placenta encapsulation after my daughter's birth last year.... I had my milk 'come in' within 24hrs, increased energy levels and blood loss ceased within a week... I was so amazed that I decided to train as a specialist in placenta encapsulation so I could offer this service to others.

Has anybody else encapsulated their placenta? Or considering doing so?

I was going to eat mine - probably knocked back with orange juice, as I doubt the useful hormones would survive prep into capsules any better than the traditional frying with onions my grandma suggested.However we had to stay in hospital for a while, DP shoved the pot in the freezer and by the time it defrosted it was a week later so didn't bother.

My very cool but slightly weird pregnancy yoga teacher was happy to make it in to a smoothie for free.TBH physiologically it makes perfect sense high in iron and oestrogen which plummets after birth. It could prevent the post partum blues. However in the end DH vetoed the idea andthe mmidwife chucked it out.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support placental encapsulation. Actually, where I live the woo-mongers have gone one stage further and introduced a homeopathic version, so you give them your placenta and £200 and you get back some capsules that don't even contain your placenta anymore.

I thought I wanted to look at mine Amanda but after I gave birth I went all cold sick and shaky. I knew at that point that it wouldn't be good for me, or anyone else in the room, if I feasted my eyes on that thing in the big silver bowl

They say there are benefits to drinking your own piss but I wouldn't. Why would anyone eat a placenta? fucking weird.Go to tesco, there is plenty of weird and wonderful veg n fruit they keep importing from timbucktoo to try. Once you've tried all them, they have a whole aisle of weird and wonderful vitamins and shakes.A placenta? Weird, fucking cannibalism shit.In fact, has a study been done on correlation between placenta eating weirdos and cannibalism? Maybe these weirdos might get a taste for human blood.

Does encapsulation work for other waste products? Could you pop round and encapsulate the enormous amounts of snot my blocked up nose is producing? I don't want to eat it, mind, I've just run out of tissues.

Ooh, I wanted to look at mine Chao. Bloody thing had taken long enough to get out and everyone was all 'ooh, it's a dirty douglas' (was that the name midwives use). It was in a bucket on my bathroom floor, I was looking.